Summit Ministries

A few days before I arrived at The Summit I was doubting whether or not I made the right decision to take two weeks off work to attend. I had to justify it in my mind by saying that I was going to get 3 college credit hours.

It only took a day to realize that God had definitely been leading me.

I'm at a place in my life where I don't really know how I got here. I have slowly, steadily, let my relationship with the Lord grow cold. I read my Bible, but I don't study it. I pray, but I don't commune with God. I was doing most of the things I thought I should, but, as surely as I had been letting go of intimacy with Christ, the world, the flesh, the things that could accurately be called idols, were creeping up in His place.

The things that God had been teaching me up to the point I walked into the door of this building were the things that He has continued to impress upon me throughout the past two weeks.

Romans 12 says, "Do not conform any longer to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God's will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will."

The truths at the Summit have an amazing ability to clean out the ideas, and influences, and worldviews that have gradually taken root. The truth of God is taught at Summit in a way that is clear, and educated, and that challenges the ideas of the world around us. I feel like my mind has been renewed.

I have been challenged to take everything in my life to the next level: my relationship with the Lord, my education, my reading habit.

Summit has a way of making you want excellence.

I am leaving some things here at Summit… thoughts, ideas, habits, that are not from the Lord. I'm taking home so much more. A renewed desire to love Christ practically, with my life, in the way I live. To study, "to show myself approved," to "always be prepared to give an answer for the hope" that I have. A desire to meet and challenge the enemies of our faith that are so prevalent.

I don't know what God has for me in the future. I don't know if He will ask me to go somewhere new, or stay where I am now. But I do know, that the things that I have learned at the Summit are things that I will always have with me no matter where I am.